Por que o “Time” fala com um sotaque alemão?

Atualização: o OP forneceu uma resposta melhor aqui .

Citando sua entrevista:

Q. Sacha, how did you arrive at your accent?

Sacha Baron Cohen: He’s slightly Bavarian… I don’t know. Bavaria by way of California. [Puts on the accent] He has that kind of overly pompous, very emphatic way of talking, where everything seems very crucial even though it can be complete nonsense.

( Audio versão da entrevista acima.)

Embora alguns digam que o < href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/alice-through-the-looking-glass-2016"> sotaque é supostamente inspirado por Werner Herzog.

Eu encontrei uma entrevista com o diretor James Bobin que lança alguma luz sobre isso:

With Time it’s like how he holds himself, his walk, how he sits, you know, it being a thing whereby we’d already had a lot of English accents. And Sacha could do pretty much anything.

And we thought time as a concept is a kind of a Swiss idea, like clock makers etcetera. And in Switzerland there are two languages, French and German. So we thought German was quite precise in its language.

And then we thought, well, you can’t just do a basic, German, you know, you have to do something fun with it. And so we thought like who has an interesting voice who is German? And we came up with our friend– our documentarian friend who Time is basically based upon.

Este "amigo documentarista" é Werner Herzog , como James Bobin confirma em esta entrevista :

Was it Sasha Baron Cohen's or his idea to play Time as Werner Herzog?

Ha! You spotted that.

Well, Sacha and I have worked together for years creating characters, so we had a fun time doing that. When you talk slowly and precisely, even if you’re saying things that aren’t intelligent, you sound intelligent. That felt like a good thing for the character to have.

É apenas algo que Cohen e o diretor James Bobin inventaram, como Bobin "explica" neste clipe:

We came up with this idea of this sort-of quasi-German mid-Atlantic voice.